In some side news that doesn’t much affect your life, but is pretty hilariously nonetheless, President Donald Trump on Thursday fired U.S. Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, the woman who once let Lizzo - yes, that Lizzo - use James Madison’s 200-year-old flute at a concert.
According to this, Carla Hayden was notified video email that her services were no longer needed and that she should probably dust off her resume, a move that sent leftists who probably didn’t even know we had a Librarian of Congress into apoplexy after they googled her and learned she was the first African-American to hold the position after being confirmed under Barack Obama in 2016.
Hayden had been accused by some conservatives of backing the left’s agenda to give kids books on gender-bending and other woke ideology. And the move predictably sent congressional Democrats into hysterics - including said Rep. Joseph Morelle of New York, who complained that “Hayden has spent her entire career serving people — from helping kids learn to read to protecting some of our nation's most precious treasures.”
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“Precious treasures” like, say, a centuries-old crystal instrument that she handed over to a half-naked obese woman to flail around with on a stage while clad in a spandex unitard that was about four miles of fabric too small, like this?
Founding father James Madison’s 200-year-old crystal flute deserved better, his legacy is forever tainted by Lizzo. pic.twitter.com/k3VbdJ5aCk
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) August 2, 2023
Cool story.
The flute, which was gifted to James Madison by French craftsman Claude Laurent all the way back in 1813, was miraculously saved from the White House by Dolley Madison, Madison's wife, during the War of 1812 when the British set fire to the building.
Thankfully, the flute is now safely back in the Library of Congress. Which is more than I can say for Hayden.